The Stories We Inherit. The Signals We Become.

A health equity platform for Black, Latino, and Spanish-speaking communities — real clinical trial data, paired with the stories and framework behind why representation gaps exist in the first place.

The framework

What are Transgenerational Whispers?

Silence, inherited sayings, unspoken histories — the patterns that travel through families and shape health, decades before a diagnosis. This is the thinking behind why representation in research matters.

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Latest from Signal & Soul

A Statistical Anomaly

Elias Vance volunteers for an epigenetic bioengineering trial that was never built for people who look like him. A story about medical hope, medical mistrust, and the quiet calculus of what it costs to be somebody's data point — and what it costs not to be.

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Clinical Trial Equity

Real trials, filtered for representation

Every study we track is already filtered for relevance to Black, Latino, and Spanish-speaking communities — not a general search.

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Community Voices

Lived experience is its own kind of evidence

Patients, caregivers, advocates, researchers, faith leaders, and community organizations sharing what health equity looks like from where they stand.

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Clinical Trial Equity

Open trials

OpenNCT04416178

Sickle Cell Disease and the Genomic and Gene Therapy Needs of Stakeholders

Race/ethnicity-specific condition

Signing up: Dec 17, 2020 – Mar 26, 2024

OpenNCT06757829

Pulmonary Functions in Sickle Cell Disease: Response to Acu-TENS

Race/ethnicity-specific condition

Signing up: Dec 15, 2024 – May 1, 2025

OpenNCT07206095

Integrative Diagnosis for SCD and Other RADs

Race/ethnicity-specific condition

Signing up: Nov 13, 2020 – May 25, 2025

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Featured research

The Whisper Archive

Twelve cross-cutting themes — trust, silence, caregiving, and more — mapped across 22 conditions, connecting community history to the clinical trial landscape.

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Upcoming on the calendar

SEP

Trial opens: Development of a Provider-Focused Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease

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Partner institutions

HBCU

Divine Nine Organization

Black Medical Association

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Our mission

Why this platform exists

Representation in clinical research isn't accidental — it's a choice made, or not made, at every level, from who gets invited to a trial to whose story gets told. This platform pairs real trial data with the cultural and historical context behind the gaps, built by and for the communities it serves.